Author: Samuel Wade

This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in 2017, and then leaked and distributed online. The names of issuing bodies have been omitted to protect sources.
In November, after several dry months, the floodgates opened. Several of this month’s directives included specific instructions on story placement

This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in 2017, and then leaked and distributed online. The names of issuing bodies have been omitted to protect sources.
Activist WCDT obtained only a single directive in October, following a similarly quiet August and completely silent July after years of gradually slowing